GG

Everybody's been talking so much about a ship with 170 passengers and 11 people sick. And NOBODY's in our inbox congratulating Ebola on how well she's taken advantage of the US withdrawal from global health efforts to infect 500+ people and kill a quarter of them (so far!)

Experts keep saying the Andes hantavirus is only contagious if you have prolonged contact with an infected person who is symptomatic and in the early stages of infection like that is supposed to be reassuring. Like people don’t go to parties, airports, ballgames and concerts just to cough on a captive audience.

“We just evacuated all the Americans passengers on board to Nebraska and one has tested positive straight off the plane and another is symptomatic but the whole quarantine thing is voluntary, everyone else is free to make their way home on any number of combinations of connecting flights, train rides and bus rides.”

And look, I understand they do not want to stir up public panic, that the whole infectious disease thing is terrible for the economy and the World Cup is coming up but there has to be a happy medium between “Everyone panic buy toilet paper and get in their bunkers right now.” and “Don’t even worry about it dude, it’s not an issue. Really isn’t that serious.” when it is a disease with an incubation period of up to 7 weeks and the passengers have just been dispersed all over the globe.